GOP senators railed against a host of Alejandro Mayorkas’ failures in Friday’s confirmation hearing for Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The hearing at times seemed like a Republican therapy session for lawmakers who needed to express their disgust with current DHS Secretary Mayorkas, whom Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio described as “the worst cabinet member ever in the history of the United States of America.”
Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, recounted how Mayorkas established the Disinformation Governance Board “using taxpayer resources to police speech on the internet and elsewhere, to tag American citizens’ viewpoints as either legitimate or not legitimate, and used the power of the state to censor them.”
“This has got to be the darkest chapter, I think, in DHS’s…
